PMQs Live – Brutal PMQs for Boris as more resignations roll in
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Pincher’s drinking wasn’t the problem, says Conservative MP
Tory MP Gary Sambrook challenges the PM’s comments suggesting MPs should have attempted to intervene to stop Chris Pincher drinking at the club last week.
He says it’s insulting to the victims to suggest that drink was the problem.
Sambrook says the PM constantly tries to deflect from the issue, blame others for his mistakes and should resign. He comments are met with cheers and clapping.
The speaker slams MPs for clapping – ‘it’s not a debating society’
PM says Labour wants him out because otherwise the Tories will win another general election.
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What happened to those new hospitals?
Labour’s Andy Slaughter says the promised new 40 hospitals, the NHS Confederation says none of these will be built by 2024.
“Two of those ‘new’ hospitals, exist in my constituency, Hammersmith, opened in 1902, and Charing Cross, opened in 1818. They’re not new hospitals, and there’s no building going on,” he says.
“They exist only in his warped imagination.”
PM says the government has managed to get 13,500 more police officers on the street and the new hospitals wil be built by 2030.
“We’re putting the funding into our NHS,” he adds.
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Tory asks is there any circumstances in which the PM will resign?
Tory MP Tim Loughton asks if there are any circumstances the PM should resign in.
In response, the PM says “clearly” if there was circumstances where he felt the government couldn’t carry on with the mandate it’s been given or would not be able to support Ukraine he would.
Johnson insists he has a “colossal majority” and he will keep going
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PM it’s over – Ian Blackford
Ian Blackford says it’s easy to forget that only 10 days ago the PM was talking about a third term. He says it’s a miracle the PM even made it to PMQs – adding: “Prime minister it really is over.”
He asks how many more ministers need to quit before the PM writes his own resignation letter.
The PM says the economy is the great issue the country faces and the govt is helping families up and down the country with £1,200 right now, tax cuts for 30m and helping half a million people into work, he says, and that is the priority of his government.
“I’m glad he likes it,” he says – in reference to Blackford.
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‘Pathetic spectacle’
Starmer calls on the PM’s government to have “some respect” and says they have for the past week been defending the PM’s decision to promote a “sexual predator” – referring to Chris Pincher being appointed to deputy chief whip.
Starmer points to a number of the PM’s claims over the handling of the situation and says they have proven to be untrue.
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PM says Starmer should “hear what his lot say about him.”
He says Starmer wanted to put Jeremy Corbyn in power.
“He voted 48 times to overturn the will of the British people,” to overturn the referendum results, he states.
“He has voted time and time again against sanctions on criminals that would put them behind bars,” he adds.